amanda palmer's open poem to jonathan chait (and other crimes)

What is that arnold palmer thing and why does the link go to an eagles video?

it's all part of an elaborate scheme that me and Linydloo Ronstadt cooked up last night in bed

It feels like this strategy of connecting with fans and plugging into your base and discovering the future of music is 99% branding yourself as the kind of person who is great at connecting with fans and 1% actual connecting with fans.

well, in general, "connecting" is typically about branding things as "connections."

if only there were a way for an artist to connect with their audience

there is, it's called "Twitter"

It feels like this strategy of connecting with fans and plugging into your base and discovering the future of music is 99% branding yourself as the kind of person who is great at connecting with fans and 1% actual connecting with fans.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, March 5, 2013 3:01 PM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seems like she is doing a lot of connecting, whether it's selling wine bottles or sleeping in their houses, tbfair

or asking for their free labour

if anything, she's connecting too much

"please show us on the doll where Amanda Palmer connected with you"

irl lol

there is, it's called "Twitter"

― "Bellini." (DJP), Tuesday, March 5, 2013 2:51 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol, could also try "art"

no no, nowadays it's all about Twitter

THIS WOMAN AND HER UNEXAMINED PRIVILEGE TURN ME INTO MRS. WHITE IN 'CLUE'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8d8y4BLWtI

FLAMES
FLAMES ON THE SIDE OF MY FACE

lol maura

otfm

thinking of ways musicians used to connect with their audience, and I guess twitter spreads fewer stds

is there a succinct phrase for what we're looking at here? this thing of looking at someone and immediately feeling embarrassment and horror and rage at what they're up to but being unable to explain why that is, isn't it obvious?, while other people are totally enthralled and inspired. "emperor's new clothes" doesn't really cover it

i tried listening to this but kind of had to tune it out. fwiw the "i had an amazing drummer, i wrote all the songs" doesn't sound THAT bad in context.

the first thing that popped into my head was "fight/flight" which is obviously wrong, but still: lol

that combination of narcissism and the fact that this interaction and sharing and experience is not framed in a generous, democratic manner but in a way that ensures she's the center of attention and it's more important for her to experience this than anyone else to whom she includes in her 'art' (and the reservoir into which money flows) feels sort of randian.

randy probably describes the enthralled fans too

adam phillips:

'But Winnicott then refers, in a brief paragraph that contradicts the rest of his paper, to a figure he calls the "creative artist," who, in a way he doesn't explain, is apparently exempt from the benign circle he has described, who has in fact dispensed with this circle altogether. For this person reparation, and the gratitude and sense of indebtedness it implies, is irrelevant, simply the creation of an obstacle. Characterized by his ruthlessness, the artist's particular kind of socialization "obviates the need for guilt feeling and the associated reparative and restitutive activity that forms the basis of ordinary constructive work." Obviate is an interesting word here, meaning as it does "to meet on the way, to prevent or dispose of in advance, to forestall." The artist's life then, which "obviates the need for guilt feeling," is one in which he has noticed guilt but has found ways of preempting it. He has refused to feel guilty, or rather, to feel hampered by it. Winnicott concludes his eleven-and-a-half-line section "The Creative Artist" in an appropriately tantalizing way: "Ordinary guilt-ridden people find this bewildering yet they have a sneaking regard for ruthlessness that does in fact, in such circumstances, achieve more than guilt-driven labour."'

Mostly negative discussion of the TED talk on the Slate culture podcast

They ask if Mark Eitzel is supposed to let Germans draw on his body

good lord this ted talk is all over my facebook feed, go to hell acquaintances.

I really tried to watch the TED Talk with an open mind...but the whole bringing out the crate followed by the theatrical pause really got my hackles up and I only made it as far as "I didn't use to make my living from playing music" before I had to shut it off.

― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 4 March 2013 16:52 (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

exactly my experience

I made it to the crashpad in Miami with a family undocumented immigrants...it's still the eyebrows, i can't

so basically, literally and metaphorically, people give you money and you give them flowers

leo, i don't care for your demeanor

that Winnicott bit is fascinating and difficult stuff (which which on first reflection I'd disagree just instinctively; aren't plenty of artists driven by feelings of guilt?), the very sort of thing AP sort of doesn't want to engage

Artists driven by wanting to be artists and do artist things.

I made it to the crashpad in Miami with a family undocumented immigrants...it's still the eyebrows, i can't

They always remind me of the cowardly lion, except I liked the cowardly lion.

http://www.theunnecesarean.com/storage/uncle-leo.jpg

http://foundmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/catholicgrandmother.jpg

I made it to the crashpad

read that as "crapshed"

i feel bad for making fun of her ridiculous eyebrows when there are so many other more relevant things to make fun of her for

I hear you, but the eyebrows are INSANE.

If it was something she couldn't help, I'd feel bad.

alopecia palmer

Next thing you'll be criticising her for wearing mismatched socks.

if she wore them on her face, then yes I would

That might be her next project.

this woman is a fucking menace:

http://schedule.sxsw.com/2013/events/event_MS22492

People of Letters featuring Amanda Palmer, John Sayles, Jenny Owen Youngs, Neil Gaiman, Emma Swift and Buck 65

maybe palmer and sayles can have an eyebrow-off

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/John_Sayles.jpg/200px-John_Sayles.jpg

I think Amanda Palmer already won the eyebrow-off, then abused the fuck out of it

sayles looks kinda sw0le in that pic

hey nice shirt inigo montoya

How is she a person of letters? Honestly.

She has a working familiarity with letters

I'd like to think that's face Sayles will make when he hears AP's tales of suffering for her art.

"I wrote "Piranha" I don't need this shit"

$10 says she writes her letter on her body, and that it is to herself.

She only knows one letter, "I," amirite?

there's no I in eyebrow

Look into my Is